When you’re driven by the desire to figure something out, like how to package twenty years of hard-won corporate experience into a simple digital download, you approach obstacles as puzzles to solve rather than signs you should quit and crawl back to the safety (and cage) of your W2.

At the rink, everyone was focused on their own balance, their own timing, their own fear of screwing up. In business, clients weren’t looking for perfection; they were looking for movement, progress, someone motivated to stick the landing.